Re: Auto-detecting -dev package dependences from pkg-config

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2016-12-11 at 21:48:17 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> [Please CC me on replies.]

> I'd like to build some tools (possibly including a dh_pkgconfig) to do
> this automatically; those tools could generate a pkgconfig:Depends
> substvar for use in debian/control.  Before starting on those tools, I'd
> like to get some feedback on this idea.

There's also <https://bugs.debian.org/548463>. I'd be happy to
include such tool in dpkg itself. I think this is one of the current
limitations we have in dpkg-dev compared to say rpm, which has many
build-time dependency generators.

> Does this seem like a reasonable approach?

Yes. And, I'd rather see this down in dpkg-dev than in debhelper if
possible.

Thanks,
Guillem